Al-Muʼminun
23rd chapter of the Qur'an
Al-Muʼminun (Arabic: المؤمنون, al-muʼminūn; meaning: "The Believers") is the 23rd chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an with 118 verses (āyāt). Regarding the timing and contextual background of the supposed revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is a "Meccan surah" during the end period, which means it is believed to have been revealed before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina (Hijra).
This surah deals with the fundamentals of faith (Aqidah), Tawheed (Islamic monotheism), Risalah (Messengership), Resurrection and the supreme Judgement of God. The surah drives these themes home by drawing attention to God's creation of man through different stages in the mother's womb, His creation of the heavens and the earth, His sending down rains and growing plants, trees and fruits, and His providing of domestic animals with various benefits for man, all together with an emphasis on the fact that man shall die and shall be raised up on the Day of Resurrection. (See also: Islamic eschatology)
The theme of Risalah is emphasized with reference to the accounts of some prophets of Islam such as Nuh (Noah), Hud, Musa (Moses) and Isa (Jesus), noting that all of them delivered the same message of monotheism, but were disbelieved and opposed by the people they preached to, and that all of them were helped and rescued by Allah. A reference is also made to the similar unbelief and opposition of the Meccan leaders to the message delivered to them by Muhammad. The Surah ends with another reference to the inevitability of the Day of Resurrection and pointing out that man will not have a second chance to return to the worldly life and make amends for his lapses and mistakes.
Summary
1-9 True believers described
10-11 Their reward hereafter
12-14 God the creator of mankind
15, 16 The dead shall be raised by him
17 God created the seven heavens
18-23 God the author of all our blessings
24 Noah, sent as an apostle of God, preaches against idolatry
25-27 The people reject Noah as a madman
28-32 Noah is commanded to make the ark, to save himself and true followers from the Flood
33-46 Hud is sent to the Aad tribe after Noah, they reject him and are destroyed.
47-50 Moses and Aaron are rejected as impostors
50-51 The unbelievers are destroyed, but God gives a book to Moses for the direction of believers
52 Jesus and Mary created a sign
53-54 Apostles exhorted to be steadfast in the true faith
55-58 The sectarians to be left in their confusion
59-62 True believers sure of their reward
63 God judges men according to their ability
64-65 The idolatrous Quraysh will not believe the Quran
66-68 Idolaters will cry unto God in vain when in distress
69-72 The Quraish reject their Prophet as a madman
73-75 A gracious invitation rejected by them
76 God continues the calamity of the Makkans in mercy to them
77-78 The chastisements of the Lord rejected
79-81 God, the author of life and intellect, can raise the dead
82-84 The Quraish persist in denying the resurrection
85-91 They are judged out of their own mouths
92-93 Angels not the offspring of God
94-99 The Prophet takes refuge in God against every evil spirit
100-101 Repentance after death will be in vain
102-109 The awful doom of unbelievers
110-112 They are punished for persecuting believers
113-115 Time will pass slowly in hell
116-118 Triumph of the faithful over the unbelieving idolaters
The Surah begins with an assertion, "Most certainly the Believers have attained true success", intending to put across a point that the criterion of success and failure which people who disbelieve in Islam, hold in mind is in fact erred because it is based on misconceptions and is transitory and limited in nature, in turn leading to eventual failure and not true success.
On the contrary, those who follow the teachings of Islam taught by Muhammad, regarded by the disbelievers as failures are actually the ones who are truly successful.
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